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My first crash: Al Murray

"I had my worst crash when I was a 19-year-old student, driving my dad’s brand new Montego. I wanted to drive to Bedford for dinner with a mate so I asked if I could borrow the car. Dad had only had it about four days but he said I could as long as I was careful.

“Don’t worry,” I said, “I won’t go crashing your brand new car.”

Montegos were terrible to drive — the handling was horrible and it was my first time with power steering. This car in particular seemed to oversteer very badly.

I remember going into a corner, not particularly fast, and suddenly it started taking me round too sharply. We went across the road and the car dumped into a ditch.

Luckily I broke my arm. It was still weak from having broken it the year before and I banged it on the steering wheel and